news.ycombinator.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. The idea is just a very small part of the reason why we are in stealth. If we are not in stealth mode, it will just draw unwanted attention. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2009
Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed. Reply Ben C. ,
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2009
Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!
Steve Blank
JULY 23, 2009
to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. And one of my conclusions was that I needed to pick one job not two. The 1970’s and ‘80’s were the endgame of the cold war, and the U.S. These technologies which allowed the U.S. To Order Outside of the U.S.
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